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  1. Actually Lexis doesn't own the content. on Google Considers 'Speciality' Subscriptions · · Score: 1

    West Publishing does aka Westlaw. Lexis licenses the content.

    That said I doubt google is looking into providing legal research capabilities. They may be moving into the Nexis (news archive) side of the business though.

  2. Killed accting server during merger & yearend on Open Source Programmers Stink At Error Handling · · Score: 1

    You are absolutly correct. Major Ass Reaming -> Paranoia -> Extremly Careful Admin.

    I think you are also absolutly correct that the lack of this direct conditioning with programmers causes them to make the same lazy mistakes that make the admins paranoid.

  3. Go away. Geeks want substance, not style. on DIY linux-based MP3 player Appliance · · Score: 1

    Please go away and take all the grammer, html, spelling, nazi's with you.

  4. Please read the article. on ATI Drivers Geared For Quake 3? · · Score: 1

    They get this improved framrate by secretly turning down the visual quality. Nothing has been improved. This is just part of lame ass ATI's last attempt to save themselves from nVidia's dominance.

  5. The learned their lesson from Walmart on Microsoft Sets Tolls for .Net Developers · · Score: 1

    Send the competition packing, and then jack up the prices.

  6. Why can't we just sned a KH11? on NASA's Mars Odyssey Enters Orbit · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Can anyone tell me why we just can't send a KH11 sattellite to Mars? It would give us all the imagery we would ever want and answer the questions we keep asking.

  7. Re:Where did you get your advice?! on Security Issues with Windows 2000 Datacenter? · · Score: 1

    An exploit is not a DOS.

  8. Actually... on The Constitution in Wartime · · Score: 1

    The reason so little of the info has been released is because it came from the Mossad. This would only provoke the Muslims even more.

  9. Note: This section is not valid anymore. on MS DRM Version 2 - Cracked · · Score: 1

    17 USC 107 has been superceded by the DMCA. Fair Use is dead.

  10. One of the most complex issues if you're a moron. on EFF speaks out against MAPS · · Score: 1

    SPAM sucks. It is theft. No reasonable person appreciates paying for unsolicited advertisements. The SPAM have no right to fill your mailbox with trash. Kill 'em all.

  11. Uh who told you that? on Sprint ION's $100/mo, 8Mbps Home Service Tanks · · Score: 1

    The only local service that doesn't pay for itself are some rural lines. SBC been feeding you kool aid?

  12. Re:the next step... on US Starts Attacking Afghanistan · · Score: 1

    I was thinking napalm

  13. Grow a lot of pot! on Used ICBM Silo For Sale, "Cheap" · · Score: 1, Interesting
    Actually they tried that. Last summer in the silo just next to it (about 15 miles away) there was a bust of about 10 million hits of LSD. They had been growing a good sized lab for quite awhile.
    • http://www.mapinc.org/ccnews/v00/n1839/a06.html? 34 5
  14. The British invented the English language? on Truly Off-The -Shelf PCs Make A Top-500 Cluster · · Score: 0

    They did? I always thought it was the amalgamation
    of german and french after the battle of hastings.

  15. It is up to Palm to lose that position. on Pocket PC 2002 · · Score: 0
    They've already done that.

    1. http://chart.yahoo.com/c/1y/p/palm.gif
  16. No, it's totaly gay. on Farscape Signs for 2 More Years · · Score: 0

    That theme song is unbelievably gay.

  17. Burlington Coat Factory also sells dog coats. on Where is Largest Linux Desktop Install? · · Score: 0

    http://www.cnn.com/2000/NATURE/10/25/dog.fur.ap/

    Real community minded they are.

  18. Islam is really about love: on Satellite Radio Is Officially Here · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Take this bit from the Koran:

    Surah: 3:151. We shall cast terror into the hearts of those who disbelieve, because they joined others in worship with Allâh, for which He had sent no authority; their abode will be the Fire

  19. Wall street was pissed too. on Ellison Wants National ID Card, Powered By Oracle · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Greg Himowitz, analyst / talking head on CNBC, was livid with Oracle for announcing earnings while people were lying dead in the rubble. The other charlatan talking heads seemed to concur.

    Larry Ellison is a dick.

  20. To go with the towels on their heads? on Ellison Wants National ID Card, Powered By Oracle · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Or the odor eminating from their person?

  21. They are. on Afghanistan Is Like Nothing You've Ever Seen · · Score: 1
    So now liberals and communists and terrorist sympathizers are one in the same?

    Why not just bunch that together with homosexual/feminist/ethnic minority?

    I think he did.

  22. Michael Bolton is that you? on Are There Any Fun Tech Jobs Left? · · Score: 1

    "Is it good for the company?"

  23. No You are a moron on Analysis of New Internet Wiretap Laws · · Score: 1
    Without multiculturalism the America would not be the superpower it is today.


    Where do you get this from?

  24. Bad Guys on Poll Says Most Americans Favor Crypto Backdoors · · Score: 1

    No they won't play fair, however encrypted traffic is identifiable, and I wouldn't want to be sitting infront of a computer using unauthorized encryption software when the FBI came barging in.

    "And where is Adolf Hitler, now that we finally need him?" Hunter Thompson on Afghanistan

  25. Crusade is the proper name. on A New Kind of War · · Score: 1

    Muslims want to kill us, and we want to kill muslims. Sounds like a crusade to me.